Most-watched YouTube videos in 2010: 'Bed Intruder song,' 'Old Spice,' OK Go
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Videos on YouTube were viewed an astounding 700 billion times by people all over the globe in 2010.
To put that figure in perspective, people using microblogging site Twitter sent around 25 billion tweets during the same period.
The more than 13 million hours of videos uploaded to YouTube in 2010 documented many of the major events taking place around the globe, highlighted (and created) trends in popular culture, and collectively provided a video snapshot of the world in 2010.
"These lists of most-watched videos reflect the people, places and events that captured our collective attention and imagination throughout the year" said Google on its YouTube blog.
The list of top videos for 2010 were brimming with music, parodies, and internet memes.
A news interview with former housing project resident Antoine Dodson turned into a viral sensation after it was remixed by the Gregory Brothers and used in their Auto-tune the News series, and a parody of American singer and party girl Ke$ha grabbed the attention of the online video-watching population too.
Additional videos that had mouses firmly fixed on the replay button included a musical performance by 13-year-old Greyson Chance (often called "the next Justin Bieber"), a series of videos featuring an animated and annoying citrus fruit, Old Spice's "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" internet campaign, a video of a man's emotive response on seeing a double rainbow in the Yosemite National Park and OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version" video clip.
Globally, as of November 2010, the most-watched YouTube videos (excluding major label music videos) were:
- BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes)
- TIK TOK KESHA Parody: Glitter Puke - Key of Awe$ome #13
- Greyson Chance Singing Paparazzi
- Annoying Orange Wazzup
- Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
- Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10
- OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version
- THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE - Trailer
- Jimmy Surprises Bieber Fan
- Ken Block's Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome
And globally, as of November 2010, the most-watched major label music videos were:
- Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris
- Shakira ft. Freshlyground - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Song)
- Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna
- Eminem - Not Afraid
- Rihanna - Rude Boy
- Justin Bieber - Never Say Never ft. Jaden Smith
- Justin Bieber - Never Let You Go
- Lady Gaga - Alejandro
- Justin Bieber - Somebody To Love Remix ft. Usher
- Lady Gaga - Telephone ft. Beyonce
To view all the top YouTube videos from 2010 visit: http://www.youtube.com/rewind
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- 2 So Moorish: Mark Hix offers his own take on classic Moroccan dishes
- 3 The 10 Best Scotch Whiskies
- 4 The Ten Best Ice Cream Makers
- 5 Private viewing: Our tour of the pick of the property market
- 6 The Ten Best Men's Sunglasses
- 7 The Ten Best Steam Irons
- 8 African monkey meat that could be behind the next HIV
- 9 Liver disease 'time bomb' warning
- 10 Coke reveals its secret: It may need to carry a cancer warning
- 1 Mark Zuckerberg saved $111m by selling Facebook shares before stock slumped
- 2 Osborne adviser leaked budget information to Murdoch's man
- 3 Brazil rocked by abortion for 9-year-old rape victim
- 4 Society: The only way is Finland
- 5 Schoolboy spiked brownies with cannabis in cookery class
- 6 Fat? Really? Olympic hope laughs off official’s jibe – but others aren’t amused
- 7 'Hello mum, this is going to be hard for you to read ...'
- 8 African monkey meat that could be behind the next HIV
- 9 Coke reveals its secret: It may need to carry a cancer warning
- 10 French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters
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